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Preference to siblings will likely be part of Southern Lehigh School District's new Spanish Immersion enrollment policy.
The school board indicated its support for sibling preference in a 5-3 vote taken last week as part of a first reading of the new...

A woman in purple pajama pants mugged another woman for $100 in lottery winnings outside a Middle Smithfield convenience store Saturday night, according to state police.State police said the victim, a 23-year-old Bushkill woman, had cashed a winning...

Two Powerball® tickets, one worth $2 million and one worth $1 million, were sold in Lycoming and Delaware counties for the Wednesday, Feb. 11, drawing.
Powerball tickets sold in Puerto Rico, North Carolina and Texas will share a $564.1 million...

A new method of enrolling students in Southern Lehigh School District's Spanish language immersion program was shot down Monday after several school board members said it favored a select few.
The proposal called for creating a lottery system...

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TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Forty-six New Jersey lottery winners from July 2013 to July 2014 used social security numbers of dead people to collect their winnings, according to an audit released Wednesday.
The audit said that the use of dead people's...

In a North Philadelphia school that has captured the attention of Allentown educators, 14 ninth-graders sit at round tables, their eyes on the instructor who is holding a brain.
"Who felt the brain last week?" asks Diana Huang, a Temple...

HOOKSETT, N.H. — New Hampshire's new scratch-and-sniff lottery ticket is off to a sizzling start.
The $1 bacon-scented tickets with a top prize of $1,000 hit the market in early January. Lottery officials went with a conservative print run just in case...

The Mega Millions is a real game offered by the Pennsylvania Lottery. But you don't win it by using your credit card at a store, as a local woman says she was told in an obvious con call.
The woman, a senior citizen, said the caller was a woman with a...

HARRISBURG (AP) — The Pennsylvania Lottery is launching a new lineup of daily drawings that includes new names for some longstanding games.
Lottery officials say four games will be grouped together as "PICK" games, in which players can bet on...

A survey conducted by Southern Lehigh School District officials about how to best enroll students in its Spanish language immersion program found 65 percent favor siblings be given preference while 36 percent like a lottery system.
The 25-year-old...

A Powerball ticket worth $1 million from Wednesday night's drawing was sold at a 7-Eleven store in South Allentown, according to the Pennsylvania Lottery.
The ticket, which matched all five white balls but not the Powerball, was sold at the 1801 S....

The first new multistate lottery game in a dozen years offered three ways to win, touted a $25 million jackpot and attempted to capitalize on the popularity of the Monopoly board game brand.
After 10 drawings, it's game over.
The Monopoly...

Even in dire and dreadful years like this one, the news always offers a few events capable of causing double-takes, spit-takes and the occasional bittersweet sigh.
Like that fellow with the dog poop, for instance. His name was Ken Guldin, and he got so...

Would you prefer an enrollment system that favors siblings?
How about a lottery system where parents must first demonstrate commitment?
Those are among the questions that the Southern Lehigh School District is asking parents as part of its Spanish...

HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Lottery officials say tickets worth $1 million each were sold in Allegheny, Bucks, Columbia and York counties.
Winners of Saturday's Millionaire Raffle drawing have not yet come forward. They have one year to claim...

Some scams are clever and can be hard to spot, so I can understand why people fall for them. Others scream SCAM! so loud that you don't have to be a mind reader to identify them, like these ones targeted recently by authorities.
Officials in New York...

A Lottery Cash 5 ticket worth $325,000 was sold in Lehigh County, lottery officials said.
The ticket for Friday night's drawing was sold at Exxon Uni-Mart on Route 309 in South Whitehall Township.
The ticket correctly matched all five balls,...

TRENTON, N.J. — Three months after Illinois declared the first privately run state lottery a failure, New Jersey's similar experiment is faltering, endangering a program that supports schools and the disabled.Northstar New Jersey Lottery Group's revenue...

Downtown Allentown is getting a $1 billion face-lift, but even the leaders of companies occupying all those shiny new buildings acknowledge that if the city's struggling urban core is to make a comeback it must include one important ingredient:...